Members of the Scribe

“Jew town,” Mom directed the autorickshaw driver.“Where in Jew town?” he asked in Malayalam.“The big church,” Mom responded, because she ...

When I first started writing, I loved reading advice for writers from my favorite authors. Yet there was one common ...

I was born and raised in Israel, and my novel  The People of Forever Are Not Afraid takes place in Israel. ...

The characters in my novel,  The People of Forever Are Not Afraid , are Israeli. Because of that, my writing ...

There’s a district in Vilnius called Užupis, which has seceded from the rest of Lithuania and established its own republic. To ...

I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...

I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...

In my Paris neighborhood, I am discovering France’s historic fear of outsiders. Indifference to the fate of those not inside ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...